Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
unblue en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + blue.
Meanings
(not-comparable, regional) Not blue.
[…] a god in an unblue sky. 1992, Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda Davies, editors, Glimmer Train Stories:
A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue, tells us that some ink is blue. We look at the ink one way, and it looks blue. 2000, Charles Travis, Unshadowed thought: representation in thought and language:
Mind you, if they fly in downstairs, they are quite happy to settle for unblue mangoes. 2007, Barbara Blackman, Bryony Cosgrove, Judith Wright, Portrait of a friendship:
Soon an associational chain reaction occurs that stains blue all that has remained unblue... 1997, University of Arizona Dept. of English, Sonora Review:
unblue en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + blue.
Meanings
(intransitive, poetic, rare) To cease being blue.
The boy was very hurt in the throat and his face was only now unbluing. 2007, Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, →ISBN, page 18:
Blue at some distances unblues, […] 2006, Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems, →ISBN, page 26:
(poetic, rare, transitive) To cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.
[…] to clothe bodies surprised by bullets, to unblue hands frozen in ditches, […] 1987, Indiana Review, number 10, page 24:
They look like iced teeth where a storm unblues them. 2010, Ron Dakron, Newt, →ISBN, page 26: